The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-05
Local and state Notes.

The vandalia company this week received
several miles of steel rails which are to be laid
on the T. h & L. division.
The Vandaiia and the Nickel-plate roads,
jointly, are building a coy depot at Hubbard,
the crossing point of the two roads.
Two new mogul engines, Pittsburg build, were
this week placed in service on the indianapolis
& St. Louis road. They are numbered 1S6 and
1877.
General Superin tendent Miller, OF the Penn
sylvania lines. is expected here to-day for
conference with Superln tendent Woodland OF the
L.. n. A. & G. road.
The earnings of the Kentucky & Indiana
bridge already quite satisfactory to the stock
holders. Two railroads using it and
within q few weeks q third will be.
A new fast freight line. to operate the
Chicago & Alton, the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa,
the New York, Chicago e. St. Louis and the
Erie from Buffalo. has been organized
The New Albany & Eastern, an extension of
the o. & NJ. road. has SO near reached compile
ton that train, which the Louisville
Board of Trade. passed over it on Thursday af-
ternoon.
Within the last sixty days twenty miles of
new steel rails have been laid on the L., E. g. ST.
L. Airline road andithe main line. from New AL
bsny to Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, is now laid entirely
with steel
The stone traffic of the L., N. A & G. road the
last six months. has largely swollen the earnings
of the road. Shipments of stone daily from the
quarries the road made to Chicago, ST.
Louis and Louisville.
brotherhood LOCOMOTIVE
Loeansport division, give their twelfth annual
ball in that city Thanksgiving Mem
bers of the Indianapolis (Eureka) division have
been invited to attend.
The Bee-line is to build at once 800 box cars
$4,000 pounds capacity, and thirty-four feet
long, to increase their equipment in the White
line. The cars will take the place of old cars,
using the same numbers.
C. c. Gilmore has resigned az agent for the c..
q. 6 l. railroad at College Corner, and T. f.
Drew. of Liberty. has been appointed to fill the
vacancy. A B. Broadrick, of Brownsville, also
resigned, and his place was filled by j. r. Con-
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois road has gen.
uine blockade of freight. At Chicago hundreds
OF car loads of coal are standing on their side
tracks In addition to cars loaded with miscella-
neous freiehts. The road is doing the
largest freight business in its history.
GENERAL Passenger Agent Charlton, of the
Chicago & Alton, will likely be called upon to
tell how be can furnish free berths in Pullman
coaches to party from Bloomington to Kan
sas City, and charge full rates to another with
ont conic ting with the lnterstate-com merce act,
which forbids discrimination.
Next Tuesday Terre Haute votes on the oues-
ton of aiding the Terre Haute e Southwestern
road TO the amount of 500, 900. This is case
where it seems wise vote a subsidy, as the
road will reach into territory which now has no
railroad facilities parallels other road and
certainly it will be valuable road to Terre
Haute.
NSythern roads are again complaining that
Southern roads holding the cars that get
down Onto their lines use in their local bust
ness. The Southern freight men greatly
one of the &c, 600 pound capacity cars on their
roads. They roomy and so convenient to
load their light bulky freights in.
The PENNSYLVANIA inspection party on their
recent trip, inspected Brunots island. IN the
Ohio river where the company propose To con-
struct bridge to connect the tracks of the p
Fit. W. s. c. and the p. C.. ST. L. & c. When
this improvement is completed, all through
freights of the Pennsylvania lines will be moved
over it. greatly relieving the tracks through the
city OF Pittsburg.
The l.. B. g w. people claim to have one of
the most powerful and perfect freight en- gines in
service any road in this country. 1t is consol
type, Rogers build, has straight stack, extern
sion boiler and numerous other modern i'm
provements The engine Is numbered 81, and
has recently hauled heavy train at such a rate
of speed mp the steepest grades on the Peoria di-
vision as to give the locomotive q big repura-
ton.
Geo. Sherman, general manager OF the fast
freight lines operating over the New York Cen
trail road, dropped in quite unexpectedly on the
representatives of the line at this point yester-
day, ana spent the day looking the field over
doing good healthy business holding rates
and making friends. The lines he represents
have recently largely increased their equipment
and gone on to several roads the Philadel-
phia & Reading being of the number
The citizens OF New Albany are feeling sore
over the shabby treatment they receiving
from the Louisville, Evansville 81 ST. Louis Air
line company. The Ledger saws: THE .irrevo-
cable contract made between the city of New
Albany and the Airline Railroad COMPANY as a
condition for the 100000 of the city's 7-per
cent. twenty-year bonds issued to the company
to aid in the construction of the road in which
1t was provided that the city 10 have the
machine shops. car-building and repair-shops
and depots of the road has in every essential
particular been violated by the Airline compa-
ny. and to-day the city has not so much as q